22, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP) Paramedics attend the scene of a multiple stabbing in front of JR Nagano Station in Nagano, Nagano prefecture, central Japan, on Wednesday Jan. 22, 2025. (Kyodo News via ...

One person died and two others were injured in a knife attack Wednesday night outside a train station in Nagano in central Japan, and police were looking for a suspect who fled, authorities said.

An aquarium in Japan is using cardboard cutouts of visitors ... They are harmless to people and are known to fearlessly approach divers in the wild, according to National Geographic.

In Japan, some elderly individuals are ready to opt for incarceration to escape loneliness, among other reasons, as single-person households are projected to rise substantially by 2050. This trend ...

This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium ... turned toward makeshift “people” made from cardboard ...

Washoku is not just ordinary food, but a “food culture” that has been passed down through the lives of the Japanese people for a long time. It is difficult to define precisely, but it involves the ...

18, 2025, a traditional Japanese way of purifying soul and praying for their health in the new year. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully ...

A Japanese government opinion poll shows the proportion of people who cited "disaster preparedness" as an area that is heading in an undesirable direction has tripled from the previous survey. The ...